New Tools and Methods

Given the professional isolation in which we often practice, a common paradox of the therapist’s life is yearning for the very quality of personal connection we try to offer our clients. Life Focus Groups enable participants to explore their lives,Continue reading →

Hedy Schleifer • Thursday All DayLOCATION: Blue Terrace TENT

Change and growth don’t come overnight. But we can use the science of expertise to move to a new level of clinical proficiency. In this workshop, we’ll use role playing and discussion to learn how to go from good to great. Continue reading →

David Grand • Thursday All DayLOCATION: EMPIRE ROOM PATIO TENT

Imagine being able to attain a sense of safety, balance, and joy that allows you to experience maximum creative expression in every facet of life. Discover how to use Brainspotting’s eye-focus-based technique to maximize your creative self-expression Continue reading →

Martha Teater • Thursday All DayLOCATION: AMBASSADOR ROOM

The recent introduction of DSM-5–the most important revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 20 years–requires clinicians to make various changes to the way they assess and diagnose clients. Continue reading →

Courtney Armstrong • Thursday All DayLOCATION: SUITE 215E

In our clinical training, we may have felt we needed to standardize our behavior and appearance to match a rigid model of a serious-minded “professional.” But we know now that it’s more effective to break free from that narrow model and be ourselves. Continue reading →

Wendy Behary • Friday All DayLOCATION: SUITE 200E

When anger enters the treatment room, whether or not it’s directed at us, it can often take us by surprise, rattle our composure, sidetrack the therapy session, and overwhelm us with fear, fury, humiliation, or other triggered emotions.Continue reading →

David Feinstein • Friday All DayLOCATION: BLUE TERRACE TENT

Since the body of peer-reviewed scientific research has lent credibility to the emerging field of Energy Psychology, skeptical therapists have increasingly incorporated tapping protocols into their usual methods to boost their effectiveness. Continue reading →

Anna Deavere Smith • Friday MorningLOCATION: DIPLOMAT ROOM

Both therapists and actors depend on using focused attention and empathy to take in the complexity and nuance of human experience. In this workshop, you’ll learn to take in the personalities and painful stories of others without losing yourself. Continue reading →

William Doherty • Friday MorningLOCATION: SENATE ROOM

In psychotherapy, as in dancing, pacing and leading are the most important factors of success. The pacing sets the rhythm for connection and safety that allows the therapist to begin to lead the client through more challenging steps towards change. Continue reading →

NOTE: THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Ron Taffel • Friday AfternoonLOCATION: FORUM ROOM

We create ourselves daily through conversation and the resulting patterns at the heart of our sense of self—our attachments, traumas, and temperament. That’s why it’s important for therapists to challenge their clients’ conversational patterns. Continue reading →

Ann Randolph • Friday AfternoonLOCATION: SUITE 300E

To keep deepening their craft and range as therapists—and grow as creative human beings—clinicians need to find sources of inspiration outside the therapeutic arena. This workshop is an opportunity to use improvisational theater techniques Continue reading →

Clifton Mitchell • Saturday All DayLOCATION: SUITE 315E

You know you’re facing resistance when your client shrugs or mumbles “I don’t know” to most of your questions and seems terminally bored. Ditto when therapy seems to be at a dead-end and you feel insecure, incompetent, frustrated, and even angry. Continue reading →

Ann Weiser Cornell • Saturday AfternoonLOCATION: EMBASSY ROOM

As therapists, we’re all familiar with how often clients get stuck in stereotypical, frozen ways of responding to their lives. So how do you help them get out of their familiar mental routines and into the realm of fresh experience? Continue reading →

David Wallin • Saturday Afternoonlocation: governor’s boardroom

Attachment research has taught us that childhood-based attachment patterns deeply affect patients’ relationships, including the one they have with us. Yet we can be unaware of how our own attachment histories shape our therapeutic relationships. Continue reading →